Wi-Fi in metro after it starts making money

By Gururaj B R

If revenues increase, BMRCL will supply connectivity in both stations and on trains

Riders can avail Wi-Fi carrier at Metro stations and trains soon as Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) is prone to name comfortable for Wi-Fi products and services in two or three months.

“The corporation is looking ahead to the industrial operation of six-car Metro carrier to begin. We will name a young in two or three months,” stated UA Vasanthrao, BMRCL spokesperson.

“The BMRCL is looking ahead to an increase in ridership to call comfortable for the purpose. Once six-car metro carrier is offered, ridership will even increase and the corporation will earn higher revenues,” he explained. Higher revenues imply the BMRCL can award a freelance to bidders who quote a high price for high quality products and services.

In 2013, unfastened Wi-Fi connectivity was once supplied on Metro trains operating between MG Road and Baiyyappanahalli.

Wi-Fi contract at TTMCs terminated

Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC), which is making all out efforts to be commuter-friendly, has terminated contract with an agency which supplied Wi-Fi connection at two Traffic Transit Management Centres (TTMCs) on a pilot foundation. The agency had now not paid the per thirty days rent.

The corporation had earlier determined to provide unfastened Internet products and services at its 12 TTMCs, which are the starting place and destination issues of BMTC buses. It would had been a supply of extra annual revenue because the BMTC would now not need to make investments the rest for this objective.

The plan have been to provide unfastened Wi-Fi products and services at Kempegowda Bus Station, Shivajinagar, Shanthinagar, Jayanagar, Kengeri, Banashankari, Yeshwanthpur and Vijayanagar and 4 other TTMCs. Of those, Wi-Fi carrier was once supplied at Shantinagar and Jayangar TTMC from April, 2017, on per thirty days rent of about Rs 70,000. However, the agency, owned via Chandrashekhar Biradar, had its contract terminated in February for non-payment of rent, stated a senior BMTC professional.